Victoria Floods (November/December 2010)
This assistance is provided through the joint Commonwealth and state government Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements and was made available for the following 36 local government areas: Alpine, Ballarat, Benalla, Buloke, Campaspe, Central Goldfields, Gannawarra, Glenelg, Golden Plains, Greater Bendigo, Greater Geelong, Greater Shepparton, Hepburn, Hindmarsh, Horsham, Hume, Indigo, Loddon, Mansfield, Mildura, Mitchell, Moira, Mount Alexander, Moyne, Murrindindi, Northern Grampians, Pyrenees, Strathbogie, Swan Hill, Towong, Wangaratta, Warrnambool, Wodonga, Wyndham, Yarra Ranges and Yarriambiack.
The following personal hardship and distress assistance was made available in all areas:
- emergency grants of up to $1,067 to provide assistance to meet immediate basic needs
- temporary living expense grants of up to $8,650 to assist households with the cost of temporary accommodation and living expenses; and
- re-establishment grants of up to $8,650 for repairs to structural damage to a residence and $8,650 to replace essential household contents such as furnishings and electrical goods.
Assistance for the restoration of essential public assets was available in all areas. Concessional interest rate loans were available for eligible small businesses and primary producers whose properties had suffered direct damage as a result of the floods.